Scott Jenstad and Jeff Erickson break down the weekend news and the FAAB results of the week.

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00:00 MLB Pod 4-27-25

00:30 Player Talk / Week 5 Preview

01:00 Aaron Judge is just ridiculous (.432 / .520 / .792 – 270 wRC+)

05:00 Taylor Ward (Worst OBP in baseball at .215)

09:30 Marcus Semien (.179 with 2 HR / 1 SB – Keep playing him?)

12:20 How good is Hunter Brown?

14:40 Best winning % in the AL? Seattle Mariners – 6 wins in a row.

17:20 NL West is wild, Dodgers 7 Wins in a row, Padres 5 wins in a row.

19:10 7 Gamers: AL: Royals, White Sox; NL: Dodgers, DBacks, Braves, Reds

19:40 Rockies: Home all week: 3 Det, 3 SD

20:20 Padres: 3 @ NYY, 3 @ Col; Braves: 4 v Cin, 3 @ Pitt; Dodgers: 3 @ Mia, 4 @ AZ

20:50 News and notes

21:00 Triston Casas – Likely out for the year with a ruptured patellar tendon

21:55 Shota Imanaga – Left early Sunday, left hamstring strain while covering first.

23:50 Corbin Burnes – Missing start Monday with right shoulder inflammation – Dbacks hope no IL.

24:25 Tommy Edman – 10 Day IL with an ankle injury.

25:20 Yordan Alvarez – Missed the weekend with inflammation in right hand, no imaging needed

25:40 Anthony Volpe – Sat Sunday after feeling pop in shoulder, but x-rays / MRI clean

26:15 - Isiah Kiner-Falefa – IL with a right hammy strain; Otto Lopez – 10 Day IL with right ankle sprain

26:30 Clarke Schmidt – Scratched Saturday with left side soreness, scheduled to now start Tuesday

27:10 Jackson Merrill – Trending towards return on Monday; Jake Cronenworth – Could return next weekend

31:50 Pitcher FAAB

32:00 Starters

32:15 Tony Gonsolin

35:20 Gunnar Hoglund

37:00 A.J. Smith-Shawver

39:30 Ben Casparius (70% ME)

41:50 Lance McCullers, Jr (Not available in most leagues)

43:00 Ryan Weathers

45:00 Michael Soroka

46:00 Hunter Dobbins

47:00 Logan Evans

47:30 Relievers

48:15 Evan Phillips

49:30 Shelby Miller / Kevin Ginkel

52:00 Hitter FAAB

52:15 Coby Mayo & Hyeseong Kim

53:35 Javier Baez (46% ME); Jeff McNeil (65% ME); Miguel Vargas (90% ME, 11% 12)

57:30 Brandon Marsh (44% ME)

1:00:00 Others - Daniel Schneeman; JP Crawford (58% ME); Chase Meidroth (51% ME); Zach Dezenzo (54% ME); Colt Ketih (42% ME); Javier Sanoja; Alexander Canario; Jorbit Vivas; Eli White; Addison Barger; Jhonkeny Noel; Zack Gelof; Jordan Lawlar Stash? (39% ME); Matt Shaw? (81% ME, 21% 12); Connor Wong (75% ME, 26% 12)

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Erik Halterman and Ryan Boyer go over their top waiver pickups of the week.

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0:00 Intro/Rockies have won back-to-back games, don’t let them get hot

Pickups from the RotoWire Steak League on Thursday night:

• Andy Pages $20
• Shelby Miller $18
• Jordan Beck $15
• Steven Matz $5
• 9:38 Gunnar Hogland $4
• Javier Baez $3
• Lance McCullers $3
• Marcelo Mayer $1
• 14:05 Chris Martin $1
• Kevin Ginkel $0
• Zach Agnos (not added)

19:03 Two-Start Pitchers (Week of May 5, 2025)

• Corbin Burnes 4 (Todd 3)
• Zac Gallen 4
• Luis Severino 3 (Todd 2)
• AJ Smith-Shawver 2
• Chris Sale 5
• Cade Povich 1
• Lucas Giolito 3
• Matthew Boyd 3
• Brady Singer 3
• Andrew Abbott 3
• Luis L. Ortiz 3
• Chase Dollander 1 (Todd 0)
• Shane Smith 3
• Sean Burke 2 (Todd 3)
• Jackson Jobe 2
• Ronel Blanco 2 (Todd 1)
• Cole Ragans 5
• Seth Lugo 4
• Tyler Anderson 1
• 38:57 Sandy Alcantara 1
• Tobias Myers 0
• Pablo Lopez 5
• 42:13 Griffin Canning 3
• Carlos Rodon 4
• Zack Wheeler 5
• Carmen Mlodzinski 0
• Michael King 4
• Bryce Miller 4
• Landen Roupp 1
• Drew Rasmussen 3
• Nathan Eovaldi 4
• Jose Berrios 3

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Erik Halterman is joined by Ryan Bloomfield of BaseballHQ to discuss a group of hitters who have improved in multiple different underlying metrics at once.

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00:00 Intro

02:00 Starting pitcher news

08:20 Injury news

16:05 Skillset 1, early hitters

35:00 Skillset 1, late hitters

53:10 Skillset 2, early hitters

58:35 Skillset 2, late hitters

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James Anderson and Chris Welsh preview the rookie-level complex leagues that are about to get underway in Arizona, Florida and the Dominican Republic!

Players discussed:

Yolfran Castillo

JD Dix

Emil Morlaes

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Fred Zinkie and Jeff Erickson break down 10 polarizing closing situations, highlighted by Devin Williams losing the closer's job in New York.

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00:00 Fred Pod 4-29

00:30 Welcome

01:00 10 Polarizing Closers

01:30 Early Closers Draft Mistakes?

03:45 Devin Williams

10:15 Emmanuel Clase

15:10 Raisel Iglesias

17:30 Vivid Seats

18:30 Edwin Diaz

21:30 Ryan Helsley

25:00 Carlos Estevez

27:40 Ryan Walker / Camilo Doval

31:38 BlueWire

31:55 David Bednar / Dennis Santana

34:20 Will Vest / Tommy Kahnle

37:30 Luke Jackson

43:30 Remaining Team-by-Team Rapid Fire

43:45 NL East - Phillies, Nationals, Marlins

45:45 AL East - Blue Jays, Red Sox, Orioles, Rays

50:45 NL Central - Cubs, Reds, Brewers

56:00 AL Central - Twins, White Sox

59:20 NL West - Dodgers, Padres, Diamondbacks, Rockies

1:03:10 AL West - Mariners, Athletics, Astros, Angels

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Jeff Erickson and Scott Jenstad discuss the weekend in baseball and then jump into all the adds and drops in a busy week in FAAB, including massive bidding on Nick Kurtz and Agustin Ramirez. They also discuss all the shifting closing situations across the league and try and figure who to add in each one and also talk Orioles, Astros, Nick Lodolo, Tyler Glasnow and a whole lot more. Follow us on Twitter / X: @Jeff_Erickson I @ScottJenstad I @RotoWire

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Erik Halterman and guest Marty Tallman go over their top waiver pickups of the week.

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00:00 Headlines

16:30 Nick Kurtz

22:15 Agustin Ramirez

25:25 Rhys Hoskins

28:50 Ranger Suarez

31:30 Noelvi Marte

35:30 Tony Gonsolin

37:35 Andrew Vaughn

39:20 Porter Hodge

41:45 Connor Norby

43:20 Cade Smith

47:00 Josh Smith

50:00 Deep-league pitchers

1:02:30 Deep-league hitters

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